Fritz Lang Quotes

17 quotes in 169 categories

• My private life has nothing to do with my films.
• There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
• I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.
• Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
• You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean,…
• In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
• Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
• Women have always been my best friends.
• I do not like producers.
• It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever…
• I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
• I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
• For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
• Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.
• I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.
• I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.
• Love has become a four letter word.

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